Another key development occurred with passage of the Child Nutrition Act of Healthier school lunches were an initiative of former first lady Michelle Obama. The treatment of the Department of Agriculture's programs to feed the hungry must also be juxtaposed with the subsidies that have gone to agribusiness. This article examines the precarious state of the Department of Agriculture's vital anti-hunger efforts, under both political parties, by first focusing on school lunches then on food stamps, which are now known as Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program benefits.
It then turns to a policy discussion on how these two vital anti-hunger programs have fared relative to agricultural subsidies, and the racial dynamics at work.
Combating hunger has become even more critical a task given the toll inflicted by the COVID pandemic. SNAP benefits have long been pitiably meager, and it should not take a pandemic to address that fact. The story of The Hunger Games is one in which justice, when it prevails, does so half-heartedly; once you have power, it corrupts. I hope and pray it need not be this way. But while the movies haven't done a completely thorough job of thinking about how their casting choices shape the imagination of their viewers—nor has their marketing, as I wrote about when Catching Fire released last year —there is something there that might provide a way for us to talk to one another again about what happens when racism is encoded in a society's DNA.
And, with gladness, I note that the series—and specifically its three-finger salute—has been the impetus for protests against tyranny. In another article, The Atlantic reports:.
According to the Bangkok Post, the five, who were wearing anti-coup apparel, were pulled away by military police. Parroting the language of The Capitol , they were remanded to a military camp for an "attitude adjustment.
On Thursday, three more students were detained in Bangkok after they handed out free tickets to a screening of the film. As Reuters reported, one student, after using the salute in front of the movie poster, explained: "The three-finger sign is a sign to show that I am calling for my basic right to live my life. One last note: I will tell you what is completely missing from The Hunger Games , which I find interesting: religion, entirely.
No church, no temple, no mosque; no god, no coalition except the political. There isn't even an ideology one might think of as religious, in the way of Communism or American national religion. And in Panem, pervasive structural injustice rules, without hope of relief.
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Sections Home. Bible Coronavirus Prayer. Subscribe Member Benefits Give a Gift. Subscribers receive full access to the archives. Alissa Wilkinson November 24, This takes place something like years in the future, when most of the population has been wiped out. In years I would bet it will be rare to find someone who is a single race -- especially if most of the world gets wiped out in the process. Skin color meant nothing to these people.
That was perfect. I also liked how no one really cared about nudity. It just IS. Katniss was described differently, yes. However, the actress who plays her is great and did grow up in Kentucky, close to where District 12 is supposed to be, so that kinda is nice. I remember the hateful comments made when it was revealed years years ago back when I was a gamer that the protagonist of the GTA games would be Black and the setting was supposed to be in the ghettos. Stand das im Buch? I always thought the famous "Rue's death wasn't as sad because she's black" post was a troll.
Now I see the track tag, I think it wasn't. I agree that they could have casted a girl of colour as Katniss, but I don't think that it was a stretch making her white, since her mother and Prim who also has the same father as Katniss are blond and blue-eyed. I pictured her as white in the books for that reason alone. Save my name, email, and website in this browser for the next time I comment. Sociological Images encourages people to exercise and develop their sociological imaginations with discussions of compelling visuals that span the breadth of sociological inquiry.
Read more…. Toggle navigation. Leavitt — April 2, Deeply distressing, but not surprising. Anonymous — April 2, Another media example that might serve to illustrate this is the case of Blaise Zabini in the later Harry Potter installments. Robin — April 2, The whole 'Rue can't be black! Anonymous — April 2, District 11, as a whole, is clearly shown to be in the southern US. Anonymous — April 2, Cinna was described as black, although the description was brief.
PS — April 2, In addition to the racist, reading-comprehension-challenged twits, I was also depressed to read a recent headline to the effect of "Fans decide that Jennifer Lawrence's body is acceptable after all! Anonymous — April 2, I was very disappointed to see that other than the characters that were described as black in the book all of the competitors in the games were white and, hell, pretty much everyone outside of District 11!
Gilbert Pinfold — April 2, The reason, presumably, why you want the cast to represent the racial composition of the audience, is that people will 'relate' better to their own race?
Guest — April 2, This might not be a popular opinion but I feel that the issue here and the other two sited Thor and Spider-man are different things. Robert Hutton — April 2, Personally, I think what we're glimpsing here is the generation brought up in the wake of the anti-"political correctness" movement. Kendogirl — April 2, This is very telling of what goes on when people write of the future and their audience in society concerning race.
Andrew S — April 3, I liked the book because they did not have races. Ultimately I had hoped for them to have more mixed-race characters.
Cartergunn — April 3, I think citing teenage tweets is equivalent to eavesdropping on a school bus. Theodore — April 5, I remember the hateful comments made when it was revealed years years ago back when I was a gamer that the protagonist of the GTA games would be Black and the setting was supposed to be in the ghettos. Jenny Allan — April 17, I always thought the famous "Rue's death wasn't as sad because she's black" post was a troll.
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